15/06/2016 Deadline: October 31, 2016. The biggest film event in the continent The Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) was established in Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) in 1969. It is officially supported by the voltaic authorities in 1972 and it is at that moment that prizes make their appearance, the first…

Paris, June 14, 2016 Vivendi launches the first movie theater and CanalOlympia shows in Cameroon Vivendi opens today in Yaounde, Cameroon the first CanalOlympia movie and shows theatre of the continent. This is part of a network of dozens of halls that will be gradually deployed in Central and West Africa. Additional CanalOlympia halls will…

What started as a leisure industry, stories and jokes being told in motion pictures, has now transformed into a strong weapon for strengthening African peace and unity. Under the theme “Promoting peace through entertainment”, Africa’s most prestigious award ceremony, the 12th edition of African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) took place at Port Harcourt in Nigeria…

The organisation of the Alpe d’Huez International Festival of Comedy Film announced via a message on its Facebook page that Omar Sy was chosen to chair the jury of the 20th edition. For 20 years, the Alpe d’Huez International Festival of Film Comedy has decided to offer the best of the best. And asked the…

For 15 years, the Canal + Group invests in African cinema and leads for 3 years an active policy of development of audiovisual production in Africa: Purchase, Pre-purchase, Co-production, new productions Distribution. On the occasion of Discop held last week in Abidjan, the Canal + Group announced the arrival of new entertainment programmes dedicated to…

No doubt: it is Africa’s film industry most innovative projects in recent memory. Mokolo Project has been on the web for months now. Hence by the time it was officially launched on May 31 at the Djoudj Hall of the Hotel Ngor Diarama in Dakar, Senegal, it had already wormed itself into the hearts of…

Considered “the father of Gabonese cinema,” Philippe Mory died Tuesday night at his residence in the capital at the age of 81. “Philippe Mory was said to have committed suicide at his residence in the 6th arrondissement of Libreville,” said the Minister of Communication and government spokesman Alain Claude Bacille Bi Nze, June 7 contacted…

Moroccan director Said Khallaf will participate with his feature film “A mile in my shoes” at the International Film Festival in Durban, South Africa, to be held from 16 to 26 June, 2016. “A mile in my shoes” had, remember, won the grand prize of the 17th edition of the National Film Festival in Tangier,…

The Mauritian director, David Constantine, called for African solutions to the challenges of financing and distribution that block the promotion of African cinema. Speaking on the sidelines of the 13th edition of the African Film Festival of Tarifa-Tangier, he believes that the history of African cinema is extremely linked to colonialism, thus the support of…

Initiated in Yaoundé in 2010, Mokolo is a collaborative web portal and a tool to raise awareness of African cinemas. It is funded by the ACP Fund and the Goethe-Institut. The German Foreign Ministry is in advanced discussions with the Goethe Institute to support this project at least three years. The Mokolo Foundation is the…